Definition of Chapel

  • (n.) A subordinate place of worship
  • (n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial
  • (n.) a small building attached to a church
  • (n.) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar.
  • (n.) A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
  • (n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
  • (n.) A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
  • (n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
  • (n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.
  • (v. t.) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
  • (v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

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